NPC Creative Services
NPC Creative Services specializes in providing strategic public relations to health IT software and service organizations, ranging from small- and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 corporations and professional trade associations.
Whether the need is for an agency to provide comprehensive public relations services or to support an in-house team, NPC has the industry expertise and connections necessary to get the job done right, on time and within budget.
Few agencies can match the level of expertise, industry understanding and personalized service NPC brings to its client relationships.
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A Healthy Financial Outlook is no Accident
The pace of scientific advancement moves faster than ever, and today’s providers, by and large, are open to embracing new best practices and better approaches to medicine. When it comes to optimizing the bottom line, though, many physicians are hesitant to give up traditional manual approaches to revenue cycle management and embrace forward-thinking, data-driven revenue integrity models.
Yet, the stakes are higher than ever for taking a strategic approach to financial health. Today’s practices are facing some of the tightest operational margins in modern history, amid challenges brought on by COVID-19, a continuous decline in reimbursements, and the shift from traditional fee-for-service models to value-based care.
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Scaling Precision Medicine for Mainstream Adoption
It’s safe to say the U.S. healthcare system’s inherent flaws and dysfunctions have been on full display over the past year. While healthcare stakeholders recognize the need for high-value care, the pandemic has underscored the urgency of investing in models that optimize coordinated, personalized approaches.
Healthcare’s outdated one-size-fits-all, trial-and-error model was performing unacceptably even before the pandemic, wasting up to $935 billion and racking up the highest rate of preventable deaths when compared to peer nations. Notably, research reveals that more than 128,000 people in the U.S. die each year from taking medications as prescribed—four times the number of people killed by prescription painkillers and heroin combined, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Organizations’ Revenue and Reimbursement: The Lessons We Learned
It has been more than a year since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. While it will be years before we truly know the effect it will have on our overall health, economy and society, there are a lot of things we do know about the impact on health systems.
Healthcare systems stepped up in a heroic way. They managed to test, treat and cure millions of patients. We went from having no standard test for COVID-19 to being able to test more than 2 million people in a single day. (Data from the Covid Tracking Project).
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